Follow along as we try to transparently document our progress, mistakes, choices, re-groups, revisions and course corrections.
Co-founders Friday Huddle
—Check-in & catch-up on last ten days with Holy Week/Easter in the rearview mirror
—Have our 3pm Zoom meeting with a new friend at the recommendation of our LA visited friend. Had some great conversation and connections. We discussed and shared mutual excitement over the overlap of solarpunk, similar life theme and agreement over the needs of our communities. We felt led to extend an invitation to be our third co-founder. They were enthusiastically and honored and are definitely interested in following and will take some time to think/pray more.
—Sharpened the description/micropitch of SC
—Uchanma and Kris discussed more about the different games and focus on play/playing that Solarpunk Christian is engaging. Pivoting from having “The Solarpunk Game” be the fifth spiritual practice of The Rule and choosing to instead “Play”. In addition to “The Solarpunk Game” (which, itself may take a variety of forms. A physical board game and/or an interactive Live RPG/LITRPG variations? We hope so!) Solarpunk Christians will likely be developing and playing multiple games, tools and endeavors to “play” with God inwardly, outwardly, communally.
—Scheduled tentative soft-play-launch interest with friends on the evening of Wednesday, April 22nd…White Dr? Hapas?
We remembered to document that we met today. Good job us. ☑
— We prayed very briefly ☑
— We’re both juggling several things but doing ok and taking time to reflect, course correct, rest, and rest and regroup ☑
Glendale Trip
Went and met with an advising professor and friend in Pasadena. Got a lot of great recommendations, including a recent art installation in LA called ”Marooning Bodies” which… is also an immersive game. Ingenius, brilliant and powerful.
Met with old friend in Northridge, and new board member of Kris’ sponsoring org.
Met with old friend in LA….incidentally they had recently written and had published a Solarpunk story called “Mustard Seed” on Tractor Beam. Check it out, it’s a good short story!
Co-founders Friday huddle
Co-founders meeting for March 13th. Agenda is:
check-in
Kris shares of conviction to go slow as possible, putting things in God’s hands as often as possible
overview LA/Glendale Trip plans
reviewed website changes
short prayer
Went over 1 pager, slightly edited and discussed pieces, largely agreeing on broad strokes.
—Meeting review note, March 19th
prayer ☑
catch-up ☑
outline to SoCal trip agreed ☑
reviewed, suggested and committed to making additional changes ☑
We forgot to take digital documentation (picture) of us at our meeting —to do
Co-founders Huddle
Co-founders meeting for March 5th. Agenda is:
prayer
fellowship
weekly catch-up (Kris: grandparents, quiet time/health reflection, embers gathering)
to plan a trip to Southern California
time-box 20 mins Solarpunk Christian culture/philosophy/vibe
review website changes
discuss criteria for additional co-founders
determine “TO DO’s” for next week/to next cofounders meeting
one pager
designing two starter campaigns “Season 0” —one to implement Rule, one for disaster-prep
game designer meeting with T+J+B+??? (A?)
Charlie gets planted (Kidango - Canopy Celebrates MLK Jr.)
—At the invitation of Canopy we joined students and members from the community in planting trees at a school. Canopy’s Event page details and press report is here: click link here.
—Solarpunk Christian co-founders planted a tree, specifically Charlie the Chinese Pistachio tree. This is the second tree planted by way of Solarpunk Christian’s hands (Gary the Gingko tree being the first).
This is Gary the Ginkgo, planted at a park in Palo Alto.
Come to think of it, Gary may be the second tree planted and Charlie may be the third. Uhoh, diverging origin myths and who-was-first seedlings sprout quickly! Kris is not sure that the first tree had the honor of being named.
